Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Asimov

Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

Irene Khan

There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

Elton John

And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name.

Elle Fanning

I always look at Style.com and look at all the designers and I know all the model's names.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Jeaniene Frost

Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?" "What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait.

Jeaniene Frost

Kitten." His voice was thick with something I couldn't name. "This is the part... where you don't have a choice.

Jeremy Irvine

All actors have to change their name.

Georges Bataille

The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.

George Whitefield

Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified

George Saintsbury

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

Jeffrey Bernard

It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.

Jerry Spinelli

Who are you?' I didn't understand the question. I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?' I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.

Jerry Spinelli

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

Jerry Spinelli

As we meandered, she said my name three times: "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "That was better than TV." "It was." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Does the sun do that everyday?" "Yes." "Stargirl?" "Yes?" "Everyday is sun day.

Jerry Seinfeld

Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened.

Jesse Schell

LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.

Jesse Jackson

The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name.

Jennifer Lawrence

I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels… Potatoes! Bread!

Jennifer Lopez

A nickname is not supposed to be your only name. I miss Jennifer a bit.

Jeff Gannon

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

Jean Giraudoux

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

Christopher Lasch

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

Christopher Hitchens

Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.

Gaston Bachelard

The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

Gaston Bachelard

There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.

Frederic Morton

Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition.

Freddy Adu

Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.

Christopher Eccleston

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

Christian Lacroix

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

Chris Rock

I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.

George Santayana

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.